'A small group of countries that make and buy the majority of the world’s vaccines control the fate of the rest of the world.' That’s according to the Director general of the World Health Organisation who is urging wealthy countries to donate to the global vaccine sharing scheme COVAX . Joining Shane to discuss this in more detail this morning was spokesperson for the World Health Organisation Dr Margaret Harris.

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